Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZACOur heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZACPoverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
HONORE DE BALZACEverybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
HONORE DE BALZACWe cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZACThe motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
HONORE DE BALZACMen die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
HONORE DE BALZACThere are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
HONORE DE BALZACWomen, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
HONORE DE BALZACExcess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
HONORE DE BALZACPhysically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
HONORE DE BALZACWhen you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
HONORE DE BALZACSolitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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